Battery Power and Skype
A long term sceptic of Skype's ability to disrupt mobile communications I was just made very aware of how good it is.
A call from Palo Alto (Sand Hill Road to be precise) to my Moscow mobile roaming in Zurich could not connect - lots of SS7 messages agreeing that we were talking but no sound. Log in to the WiFi network and Skype away (w/o headset and mike; is it worse to hear the whole conversation but not understand or is hearing only one way worse?) But I went from 20% of battery power to critical in less than 10 minutes. That's not sustainable.
A conference I went to a year ago mapped various tech advances against battery advances. It had to be on a log scale so that battery power did not merge with the x-axis.
09 November 2004
Battery Power and Skype
A long term sceptic of Skype's ability to disrupt mobile communications I was just made very aware of how good it is.
A call from Palo Alto (Sand Hill Road to be precise) to my Moscow mobile roaming in Zurich could not connect - lots of SS7 messages agreeing that we were talking but no sound. Log in to the WiFi network and Skype away (w/o headset and mike; is it worse to hear the whole conversation but not understand or is hearing only one way worse?) But I went from 20% of battery power to critical in less than 10 minutes. That's not sustainable.
A conference I went to a year ago mapped various tech advances against battery advances. It had to be on a log scale so that battery power did not merge with the x-axis.
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